Texas · Nonprofit
THE FORWARD FOUNDATION
THE FORWARD FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $119,911 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($83,600). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $273k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $120k
- Net assets
- $10k
What The Forward Foundation does
Mission
To provide counseling, coaching, equipping and other services that enhance or promote wellness and quality of life for churches, charities, and individuals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provide sliding-scale, professional faith-based counselling and life- coaching services that are accessible to the poor, distressed, and underprivileged. These services help restore people to health and wholeness. Donations will be used to offset the cost of providing these services, making them affordable and accessible to all regardless of socio-economic status.
$117,515 spent$116,942 earned by the program40% of program spendingProvide equpping opportunities for people who would like to be trained as a christian 'life coach' to help the distressed cope with or resolve life problems. There are two versions of the training. The first version is for those who wish to become an accredited life coach, submitted themselves to a code of ethics and guidelines of the accrediting body. The non-accredited version of the training will be for those who would like some coaching skills, but do not wish to serve in any formal capacity as a coach. Such individuals may instead choose to apply their skills in their current sphere of influence - for example, at home, work, church or a charity - thereby strengthening the fabric of their community by increasing their capacity for peer-to-peer support.
$118,548 spent$163 earned by the program40% of program spendingProvide placement opportunities for professional counselling and accredited life-coaching interns, contributing to their education, and to the development of their faith and praxis as professional counsellors and coaches. We will then release them into the community fully trained and prepared for a career of charitable service to the distressed.
$58,757 spent20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $294,820.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $64k to $15k (−77%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
57% of THE FORWARD FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $8k → $25k.
3 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of THE FORWARD FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
THE FORWARD FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund THE FORWARD FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 68% · 2023 73% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of THE FORWARD FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $120k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
THE FORWARD FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE FORWARD FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE FORWARD FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE FORWARD FOUNDATION?
- THE FORWARD FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $119,911 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($83,600). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE FORWARD FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $119,911 in grants to THE FORWARD FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE FORWARD FOUNDATION?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $83,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE FORWARD FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing